Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-09

time it occurs, small crowd collects
around the front door of my apartment,
and | tell them it is fire cracker left over
from the Fourth of July. This satisfies
them and they go away. The second time
give them the fire cracker again, but they
are not satisfied The third time they
conclude that l am either dynamter or
lunatic, and have to get out the next
day. l have moved twenty times in five
years this way alone.''
King has q peculiar way of carrying
dynamite around with him in his pockets
On one occasion he called upon a Broad
way lawyer, and in the course of CONVEX
sation produced from inside his clothes a
handful of percussion caps and paper
containing about a half pound of rendrock.
On being asked what would happen if a
policeman should happen to strike the ex-
plosives with his club, he replied: II
think it would be hard job for our rela-
tives to separate the pieces of the two
Of u.s."
His chief work has been teaching how
to make dynamite cheaply, safely and Sc
cretly, and in this he has been remarka-
bly, successful. His method is extremely
simple Into a kitchen bowl surrounded
by ice water or cracked ice he puts crude
glycerine and equal parts of commercial
Oil of yitriol and aquafortis. After a few
hours the clycerine has become converted
into nitro glycerinc. The mixed acids are
then drawn Off and the crude nitro
glycerine, thick, dirty and offensive,
washed with cold water, allowed to stand
and settle and the water drawn off. This
is repeated several times until u compare
lively clean and clear fluid remains. Into
this he pours sawdust, dried clay, plaster
of nnril dry ahSnrbinp yonxy6nr
and in half hour the nitro glycerine is
thoroughly absorbed and a loose pulveru
lent dynamite remains. The cost should
not exceed eighty cents pound, and by
economy and skillful buying can be
brought as low as thirty. In making
bombs King has displayed equal inge-
nulty. The Orsini bomb brought into
prominence by the attempted assassina-
ton of Louis Napoleon in 1854 was of fine
workmanship, and cost at least forty
francs $3.50 to manufacture. King substi
tutes tomato can, mustard box, gaspipe,
fire grenade bottle or Il paper bag for the
brass or steel globe, and handful of toy
torpedoes for the percussion caps of the
Orsini school. By these simple cxpedients
he produces bombs that cost from twenty
five cents to 81 each.
All Of Kings bombs are arranged with
mining fuse or tirecracker stems to be
used in place of the torpedocs where it is
desirable to have short time elapse be-
tween the throwing and the explosion of
the missile. 1t was with one Of these that
the Andre monument at Tarrytown was
defaced and nearly destroyed; others
were used in the various dynamite ex-
plosions in Great Britain and Russia. At
one time King was q stanch supporter of
O'Donovan Rosa and his circle of Irish
liberators. After he blew up one day
in the corridor from some compound he
was carrying in his coat pocket, he SO lost
his popularity with that notable group OF
men that for the ensuing five months his
appearance at the door produced mere
rapid clearing of the rooms by ell their
occupants than would have been occa-
stoned by Il squad Of policemen or u howl
ing mob.
OF almost equal Importance with Paul
Wilzig and his establishment is Frederick
kraener and his restaurant at 1874
Seventh street <raelner is n hot an